La Perla Lotus Pearl
The well-known and much coveted Italian lingerie brand, La Perla, has launched a new collection, The Lotus Pearl.
Elegant and feminine as always, this limited edition, brings to life the true excellence ...
Spring make-up report ‘14
Make-up trends tend to come and go – smoky eyes one minute, a red lip the next with the occasional bold statement sneaking in which rarely makes it beyond the catwalks and coffee houses of Soho (blue lips a...
Laura Mercier teams up with Ovarian Cancer Action
Those fond of beauty with a good cause behind it will no doubt welcome Laura Mercier’s three new launches, 100 per cent of the profits are being donated to the brand’s Ovarian Cancer Fund (LMOCF). An often over...
Lessons from the Elders – The Maasai dance to change the myths of tourism
“When I was 16, my father was the most ignorant man in the world. By the time I reached 21, I was surprised at how much he had learned in five years.” Mark Twain was a man of many words, and a fair few it seem...
Lagerfeld takes London and the world stands by
Lagerfeld has officially touched down in London town, and the sultan of the fashion new order knows every in and every out of the capital city, indicating, soon after his Britannic invasion, that it is one of...
Artistic transgressor
The polymorphous art of Sterling Ruby embraces paradox, confounds expectations, and defies easy categorisation. Yet at the same time his creative output partakes of and helps establish new paradigms for definin...
Designer spotlight – Florence Bridge
Florence Bridge is a young designer. Yes, she’s one of a million. Yet she belongs to a small, and deservedly thriving, cult of young talents who are tackling the industry with a head-on, DIY method of attac...
A super smiles for a good cause
The supers are almost as well-known for their philanthropic contributions as they are for the way in which they shaped fashion during the ‘90s, and now, the smouldering Helena Christensen, renowned goodwill pro...
Private collection of African Tribal Art in Hong Kong
For the first time in Hong Kong, a private collection of original West African art pieces will be showcased. Presented by Harbour of Art, Les Arts Premiers features ritual figures and masks from the Fang, Mambi...
Self-conscious
This month the Frances Rich School of Fine Art and Performing Arts of DEREE, in Athens present a unique and very topical exhibition related to the pervasiveness of technological media in our lives.
The e...
PFW AW14: Elie Saab
With an ombre effect of aubergine clouding the opening of the Elie Saab AW14 show, Paris fashion week was subject to chic block colouring in an array of purples.
In true Elie Saab style, he featured elegant ...
Gold Vein: Delfina Delettrez AW14
Fine jeweller Delfina Delettrez presents Gold Vein – a suitably surreal offering for AW14. Moving on from her previous work with diamonds, the collection explores the simple beauty of precious coloured stones w...
Find your talisman before it vanishes
It’s official – Art14 rocks. You just had to step inside the throng of buyers, dealers and artists all bopping their way into the main hall at Olympia to the sound of happy house to feel it. Everyone was th...
Heal’s launches own-brand fabric collection
Not since the 1970s has a fabric department been so excited. The launch of Heal’s own-brand fabric collection has created quite a stir as we see the return of archived designs by very well established names, al...
Thierry Mugler’s top-off
Thierry Mugler is bringing back old-world luxury (and a subtle note of eco-friendly) with refillable perfume bottles, referential of a time before Ready To Wear and Over The Counter scents, when ladies woul...
HYSTERIA show of new work opens in Soho, London
Opening next week in one of Glass Magazine’s favourite Soho haunts, the exquisite French patisserie Maison Bertaux, all-female art collective HYSTERIA show their latest collection of work alongside that of inte...
PFW AW14: Alexander McQueen
Dark romance is the beating heart at Alexander McQueen and this season it rose unfettered from the warrior woman corsets of SS14 in spectacular form.
Guests were transported to a moonlit moor-like environ, w...
PFW AW14: Saint Laurent
Assuming the helm of a historic fashion house brings with it many challenges. First collections are either applauded or derided, artistic visions that do not sit well with the image of what the house “should” b...
PFW AW14: John Galliano
Fashion house John Galliano hosted a catwalk show to feature their upcoming AW14 collection at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris during Paris Fashion Week. The collection was a mixture of masculine and feminine loo...
PFW AW14: Iris Van Herpen
Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen wowed her audience at Paris Fashion Week with her latest AW14 collection runway show. In addition to the traditional models walking on the catwalk, Van Herpen added an artistic a...
Be original or die
At Glass we have always prided ourselves on championing the forgotten pioneers of fashion and photography but there can be none greater than Madame Yevonde. Born Yevonde Thilone Cumbers in 1893, a...